Criminals Quotes - Page 8

I used to have a sort of soft spot for Huckabee. He seemed to have a genuinely saintly streak, which caused him to defend illegal immigrants and give pardons to criminals who were perhaps a little less rehabilitated than he had imagined.

For an act may be wrong judged purely by itself, but when the motive that prompted the act is understood, it is construed differently. I lay it down as an axiom, that only that is criminal in the sight of God where crime is meditated.

Laws directed against opinions affect the generous-minded rather than the wicked, and are adapted less for coercing criminals than for irritating the upright.

When it comes to the issue of background checks, let's be honest - background checks will never be 'universal' - because criminals will never submit to them.

A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.

It is easy to slip into a parallel universe. There are so many of them: worlds of the insane, the criminal, the crippled, the dying, perhaps of the dead as well. These worlds exist alongside this world and resemble it, but are not in it.

None of my 'clients' - not Eichmann, not Stangl, not Mengele, and not even Hitler or Stalin - was born a criminal. Somebody had to teach them to hate: maybe the society, maybe the politics, maybe just a Jewish prostitute.

The revolutionary despises public opinion. He despises and hates the existing social morality in all its manifestations. For him, morality is everything which contributes to the triumph of the revolution. Immoral and criminal is everything that stands in its way.

The great and constant need of those who investigate homicide and practice forensic pathology or criminal law is a warm humanism.

Once you have been branded a criminal or felon, you are typically trapped for life.

It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.

To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace

A traitor is a betrayer - one who practices injury, while professing friendship. Benedict Arnold was a traitor, solely because, while professing friendship for the American cause, he attempted to injure it. An open enemy, however criminal in other respects, is no traitor.

The blood of criminals fertilises the soil of liberty.

Since the state must necessarily provide subsistence for the criminal poor while undergoing punishment, not to do the same for the poor who have not offended is to give a premium on crime.

Industrial hemp is a very useful plant. I challenged the attorney general to get rid of the criminal stigma associated with hemp so we can look at it in terms of how it might be useful.

When were we the most egalitarian country in the world? When we had the Glass/Steagal Act, which prevented the banks from becoming the criminal operations that they've become.

We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn.

If I had a picture of two handcuffed criminals being booked, I would cut the picture in half and get five bucks for each.

Now watch what you say or they'll be calling you radical, liberal, fanatical, criminal.

If it is a Miracle, any sort of evidence will answer, but if it is a Fact, proof is necessary

There is no reason to live in fear of crime and violence. There is however reason to take reasonable precautions. And in doing so, you will have deterred most criminals from choosing you as their victim.

A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character.

To be in America illegally is actually a civil offense and not a criminal one.

It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.